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How should one Network with people?

During my career i have been fortunate enough to meet people that actually want to keep in touch with me. There was an era when i would take things for granted and not keep in touch as i would be busy with my goals and plans that sending an email to say hi was not [...]

[ More ] March 29th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Workplace Thoughts |

Will Google standby its Motto “Do No Evil”?

David Nelson a 15-year-old has created a free-music service by harnessing YouTube’s vast library of music videos. The service enables people to stream Youtube music straight to their PC without visiting Youtube. Users can build pluralists and organize this similar to iTunes. The 15 year old said “It’s really the first 100% free, legal method [...]

[ More ] March 16th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Talks |

Google - tips for optimising your website

All the questions below i found on Google Moderator.
1. Does Googlebot have a preference in URL structure?
Matt Cutts replied to this as
“I would recommend
long-haired-dogs.html
long_haired_dogs.html
longhaireddogs.html
in that order. If your site is already live on the web, it’s probably not worth going back to change from one method to another, but if you’re just starting a new [...]

[ More ] March 16th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

How to get your website built when search engine is key

So you are a web startup and you need to get to be known when people are looking for your service. Well welcome to the world of search engine optimization. Its true no matter how good your product or service is if you don’t have a huge marketing budget to throw away you need to [...]

[ More ] March 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Talks |

Where is the future of micro blogging going to take us???

Twitter certainly, holds the market share when it comes to micro-blogging services. Google has now announced that it is releasing its Jaiku code under the open source Apache license 2.0. Google will no longer be developing the Jaiku codebase, but since it will be open source the community can now start contributing back to this [...]

[ More ] March 16th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

YouTube to block music videos for UK viewers

Its really sad but true Google Inc’s online video site, YouTube, will be blocking all music videos to British user as YouTube is unable to reach a rights deal with a British collection society that collects royalties on behalf of nearly 50,000 composers. This move will take effect by Monday evening British time.
Source: TVNZ

[ More ] March 11th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

Online ad strategies key aspects to consider

Came across this video that walks the publisher through a few key steps to consider when joining an ad network. Hope you like the video

[ More ] March 11th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Talks |

Web Publishers to move beyond Banner ads

Twenty-seven large publishers are introducing three new types of online display ads. The new formats are meant to reduce clutter and provide more visibility.
One of this is the “pushdown,” 970 pixels wide by 418 tall on the page. What this ad space would do is when the page opens, the pushdown ad will expand downward, [...]

[ More ] March 11th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Talks |

Conducting Business in the Virtual World

In this video Brent Arslaner, VP of marketing at Unisfair, explains how virtual environments can increase productivity

[ More ] March 11th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Talks |

A conversation with Google

Charlie Rose, who focuses on Silicon Valley personalities, interviewed Google Vice President Marissa Mayer. In the interview the following have been discussed:
Diplomatic answers about Yahoo
Problems faced within the Search topic
How Orkut Googles social network have not picked up
About the people that work at Google
Check the interview to gain an insight about how Google works. I [...]

[ More ] March 6th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Talks |